[MPlayer-users] Bug in ASF codec ?

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Christian Tsotras wrote:
> Looks like WMV9 mplayer's plugin is not compatible with Microsoft's 
> proprietary protocol.
> 
> No possibility to solve this ?
> 
> 

Let me make this more clear, as I looked at it as a problem with
mplayerplug-in...

I believe what Christian is saying is that mplayer has issues with
multipart mms/http streams for WMV9 media.

The following command

mplayer http://wms1.earthcam.com/times?MSWMExt=.asf

Which if retrieve via http is a reference file to itself

[Reference]
Ref1=http://wms1.earthcam.com/times?MSWMExt=.asf
Ref2=http://65.200.140.51:80/times?MSWMExt=.asf

The second one is the same media.

Even switching the url to an mms form does not change the results.

Plays the splash logo just fine (as does mplayerplug-in). But I believe
Christian states that after this logo, a real time stream should occur.
(I don't have Windows so I can't check). Mplayer does not appear to
recognize this secondary stream and so therefore the media is failing.

I took a look at the parent site, and I am interested to see the path to
that media file, perhaps there is some javascript or some other garbage
that is telling it to switch streams.

This appears to be the website where it came from
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/index.php?cam=streaming

And while it a flash/javascript/Windows Media player mess,
mplayerplug-in appears to be getting the right url to play.


Kevin

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